WiC Watches: Season 7 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Photo: Star Wars: The Clone Wars Episode 706 “Deal No Deal” .. Image Courtesy Disney+
Episode 706: “Deal No Deal”
Ahsoka and Trace hook up with Trace’s sister Rafa for a Spice run to the planet Kessel. Despite a warning from Ahsoka about the planet and the various bad guys inhabiting the hyperspace lanes going in and out, Rafa convinces Trace to take The Silver Angel — Trace’s own ship she salvaged from the junk heaps on Coruscant — out on her maiden voyage to retrieve the highly valuable cargo.
Because Trace and Rafa do not trust the Jedi, Ahsoka has to constantly hide who she was in her former life, which comes into play in a very interesting way. AsThe Silver Angel drifts into military lanes on Coruscant, it flies across the front of Anakin Skywalker’s Republic battle cruiser. Sensing his former padawan is on the smaller ship, Anakin reaches out with the Force, and he and Ahsoka share a nice moment of acknowledgment.
It’s moments just like this that we never got in any of the prequel films, and it’s what got me most excited for Dave Filoni returning to produce one final season of the show.
Photo: Star Wars: The Clone Wars Episode 706 “Deal No Deal” .. Image Courtesy Disney+
Anyway, Ahsoka, Trace and Rafa pick up the shipment of Spice and Rafa reveals the rest of her plan to Ahsoka and Trace: she’s taking the Spice to the Pyke Syndicate. Ahsoka immediately knows from her time as a Jedi that the Pykes are bad dudes, and she tries to persuade Trace to turn the ship around and use the Spice to make medicine for the needy back home on Coruscant.
An argument between Ahsoka and Rafa breaks out, and in order to make them stop fighting, Trace ejects the Spice into space. Not a great move on Trace’s part, because either way, the Pykes expect to get their shipment, so Trace lands her ship in Syndicate territory and they offload empty crates.
Ahsoka stealthily — and unbeknownst to both Trace and Rafa — uses a Jedi Mind Trick to convince the Pykes that the empty crates contain the Spice, but one of the gang members isn’t fooled. After checking to confirm his suspicions were correct, he has The Silver Angel surrounded. Fade to black, to be continued next week.
This was a fun episode with a very nice heartwarming moment shared between Anakin and Ahsoka.